Paulo Coelho Quotes

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First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We call that hand God, and He always guides us accoring to His well

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Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

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Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern than merely contains.

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The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams—each according to his own talent.

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Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments — but all of this is transitory it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

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When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

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Lord, preserve me from tragedy and I will follow your desires.

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Leave your comfortable life and go in search of your kingdom.

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Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

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If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

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The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

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People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly.

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Perhaps they needn't even believe — it was enough that they needed angels, and the angels would return gladly.

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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

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In the cycle of nature there is no such thing as victory or defeat; there is only movement.

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If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.

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He had worked for an entire year to make a dream come true, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important. Maybe cause that wasn't really his dream.

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What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

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Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.

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Love will never separate a man from his Personal Legend.

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My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.

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No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.

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Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons. Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light.

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Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.

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Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

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Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

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When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.

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Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

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I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

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I am going to sit here with you by the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you — until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life.

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